[Image ID: A tweet by More Perfect Union, @/MorePerfectUS, reading: Tens of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh who make products for brands like Zara, H&M and GAP are on strike.
Their minimum wage is $75 a month, and they’re demanding it rise to $208. The bosses are only offering $90.
They’ve shut down over 300 factories so far.
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from the article linked above
Local media reports said two workers died in clashes with police in Gazipur on Monday while some blocked roads and set fire and vandalized several factories.
Bangladesh earns annually about $55 billion from exports of garment products, mainly to the United States and Europe.
this week in I Am Very Smart: having enough money to go to the opera, museums and concerts correlates with having enough money for food, shelter and basic health needs
They controlled for socioeconomic factors though! The people who conducted this study knew that people with lots of money to attend the opera were also more likely to be able to afford basic necessities, so they controlled for it in their analysis. The fun thing about statistics is that you can control for different confounding factors so you can look at the effects of one independent variable (opera or whatever) on the dependent variable (mortality). Part of being critical of potential biases is actually reading the article and knowing what to look for.
In addition to that very good point about controlling for socioeconomic factors, the article says a single museum or concert per year makes a difference. Most cities have free community concerts (some even have free opera performances!) and museums that are either free, pay-what-you-want, or at least have specific days/times during which they are free or at a significantly reduced cost. Many libraries (which are free) provide free museum passes to card holders. In fact, the article quotes a museum worker who works at a free art museum in Baltimore.
If you actually read the article you would also read that educators are excited about this study because it provides evidence that the arts should be made more accessible financially - by restoring arts programs in the public schools, for example.
My dear @jamiebythesea I hope you don’t mind but your tags are important I don’t want them to disappear
I love villains that are the reverse of the idea that the absence of love makes you evil. Villains that love to the point of paranoia and obsession. Villains whose love for someone corrupts them. Love being used for awful, evil things. Using love to justify horrific actions. Anything that breaks down the toxic idea that people who don’t feel love are monsters and those who feel love are always pure and heroic and morally right.
The Co-Prime Minister of Israel is calling for US state governments to take legal action against an ice cream company, because it is owned by two Jewish men who oppose apartheid and are pulling their business out of occupied Palestine
Hey. You. The American teenager inexplicably reading this. Don’t join the US military. You’re better than that. The military is a bunch of cops. Are they technically diverse and inclusive? On some level, kind of, almost. But their job is to kill people. They kill innocent people every day. They abuse their own members, especially their members who aren’t white cis het middle class Christian men. The US exists through perpetual violence against the global working class, including its own working class. The military is how it carries out a large portion of that violence. You deserve better. You’re better than that. Don’t join.
Truly wanted to kill Jordan during that slow ass walk across the field towards Marie. Like babe, this is a fight scene not a romance movie. If you walk that slow someone’s going to get you
I can tell Jordan is the only character who actually gave a fuck about school because how are there only three people in your friend group and you didn’t notice two people who weren’t supposed to be fucking, were fucking. Like Ik that GPA was 4.00.
